What are the elements of absurdity found in Samuel Becketts Endgame?
kc4u Teacher College – Senior eNotes Editor If one treats Endgame as an absurdist play at all (there are other, better ways of looking at it), the elements in the play that may be seen to corroborate the absurdist/existentialist vision of a human world stripped of meaning through proliferation and infinite deferral can be the following– 1. the non-realistic conception of the whole play, the unnamability of its time and space. the setting is as abstract as it can get with the expression ‘bare interior’ being used. the space might well be internal with the two high-windows resembling the two eyes and the shade being that of a skull. 2.There is very little of action; all of it is verrbalized, with bristles of pauses and silences. The emphasis is on stasis, immobility, sterility and so on. 3. Impossibility of a closure. Both Hamm and Clov want to end the metaphorical game of chess. It is the end that can make their existence meaningful but the end never comes and they remain meaningless a
